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Patented Feb. 3. 18911.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

BARNEY O. TROXLER, OF GREENSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGHOR OF ONE-HALF TO ARTHUR G. VILSON, OF SAME PLACE.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,913, dated February 3, 1891.. Application tiled .Tune 7, 1890. Serial No, 354,624. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that I, BARNEY C. TROXLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greensborough, in the county of Guilford and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Plow, of which the following is a speciiication.

" This invention has relation to improvements in plows of that class employing a sezo ries of standards and shovels, one arranged in advance of the other.

The objects of the invention are to conveniently combine and arrange a series of four standards and shovels in a convenient, strong,

i 5 and durable manner, and so as 1o require as light a draft as possible for operating the same.

The objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a plow constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, the handles removed.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates the usual main plow-beam, to the opposite sides of which are bolted the upwardly-disposed and diverging handles 2, suitably braced, as shown.

3 and' 4 represent the two central plowstandards, each of the goose-neck7 pattern, the former standard being arranged in advance of the other and each applied to a side of the beam. The left-hand standard 5 terminates in rear of the standard et and has its front end bolted, as at G, to the standard Je and to the beam,which bolt also passes through the beam and the central standard 3 and through the lower end of a short strap or brace 7, bolted at its upper end to the right-hand handle 2 by means of a bolt- 8, which at its outer end passes through the upper end of a strap orbrace 9,1aterallyinclined. The standard 5 in rear of its connections G is outwardly bent, as at 10, to torni a knee, which spaces it a proper distance 'from the standard 4, and between the two standards is interposed a space-block 1l, through which is passed a bolt 12, said bolt also passing through the standards 10 and et and through the lower end of a vertical bracestrap 13, the upper end of which is bolted, as at 14:, to the lefthand handle 2.

15 designates the right-hand or advance standard, the inner end of which is bent to 5 5 form an L or shoulder 16 and is bolted, as at 17, to the side of the beani 1. In rear of its shoulder or L there is interposed between the standard 15 and the standard 3 a spaeeblocl 1S, through which passes a bolt19, said bolt 6o also passing through the standards 15 3 and the front end of the standard 5, in advance of the standard 4 and through the lower end of the inclined laterally-disposed strap or brace 9, which, as before stated, is bolted to the right-hand handle 2.

From the above construction it will be apparent that I have provided an exceedinglyrigid set of plow-standards, each of which, it will be understood, is provided with the usual 7o shovels,as shown, and that said rigid connections between the parts are secured by a minimum number of bolts and braces, each of said bolts serving the purpose of binding several parts in their relative position. A plow thus constructed, is operated in the usual manner, and by the spacing apart of its several beams or standards is adapted to cultivate simultaneously as many rows.

Having thus described my invention, what 8o I claim is- In a plow of the class described, the combination,with the main or central beam 1 and the upwardly-diverging han dles2, bolted to opposite sides of said beam, of the central stand- S 5 ards 3 and at, applied to opposite sides of the beam, the latter standard being in rear of the former, the outer or side standards 15 and 5, each bent to form a knee or shoulder and spaced from the central standard an'd in ad 9o Vance and rear of the saine, the space-block 11, interposed between the beams It and 5, the vertical brace 13, bolted at its upper end to the left-hand handle and depending and terminating between the block 11 and beam 5, 95 the bolt 12, passing through the standards et and 5, the bolt 6, passing through the beams 3, 4L, and 5 andthrough the short brace 7, interposed between the beam 1 and standard 3 and extending up opposite the right-hand Ico handle 2,the bolt connecting the han dles and In testimony that I claim the foregoing as passing through the upper end of the brace 7, my own I have hereto aixed my Signature in [o the laterally-nelined brace 9, also mounted on presence of two witnesses.

said bolt, the block 1S, interposed between the standard l5 and the standard 3, and the bolt BARNEY C. TROXLER. 19, passing through the lower end of the brace lVitnesses:

9,1he block 18, the beam 1, and the standard JNO. L. BAKER,

5, substantially as specified. J. XV. SCOTT. 

